O Arauto e o Rei: padre Antônio Vieira e a construção do Império Português

Abstract

Antonio Vieira was a complex figure in the centuries after his death was fragmented as a mosaic. The mirror of a thousand faces of Iberian history seventeenth century was fundamental for the consolidation of the Bragança dynasty forward to the Spanish domination in the Portuguese world. Vieira reinvented and transformed the image of Desire king d. Sebastian, who disappeared in Morocco in 1578 under the picture of the Duke of Braganza, acclaimed in 1640 as d. John IV of Portugal. This research aims to discuss the influence of the Spiritual Exercises in Jesuit education and the teleological-political intervention actions in the independence project and consolidation of monarchical Lusitanian power by Father Antonio Vieira, through an analysis of the Sermon of St. Anthony, nailed in Lisbon year 1642, which proposed the Three States of nobility society, Nobility, Clergy and People, complete surrender to the cause, especially with the payment of taxes, considering the privileges and immunity of the first two, and concomitantly, produce a comic book depicting the Portuguese historical journey from its formation to the Restoration.